This is AP news minute. 1. A Trump administration is tightening enforcement of U.S immigration laws. A pair of homeland security memo signs Tuesday, greatly expands the number of people considered a priority for deportation. Now, any immigrant living...
This is AP news minute. 1. Army lieutenant general H.R. McMaster is named president Donald Trump's national security adviser. This comes a week after his first adviser general Mike Flynn resigned amid controversy over Flynn's contacts with Russia. 2....
This is AP news minute. 1. Iraqi forces launched a broad offensive on the west side of Mosul early Sunday morning. Footage shot by the Associated Press shows Iraqi helicopters firing rockets, and armed vehicles advancing. 2. Vice president Mike Pence...
This is AP news minute. 1. A draft memo obtained by the Associate Press shows a Trump administration proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 national guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants. Under the plan, state governors would decide wheth...
This is AP news minute. 1. President Trump's pick to be the new national security adviser has turned down the job. Vice admiral Robert Harward says his decision is purely personal. 2. NATO defense minister has decided to beef up the alliance of NATO...
This is AP news minute. 1. President Donald Trump mounted a vigorous defense over his presidency at the White House news conference Thursday. He says his administration is running like a fine tune machine, despite media reports of chaos. Trump's comm...
This is AP news minute. 1. Andy Puzder, president Donald Trump's pick to lead department of labor has withdrawn his name from consideration. Democrats strongly opposed the pick, some republicans raised concerns about Puzder's failure to pay taxes on...
This is AP news minute. 1. The White House said today that president Trump asks national security advisor Michael Flynn to resign because of a trust issue, not a legal one. But house democrats are demanding an investigation into Flynn's contact with...
This is AP news minute. 1. President Donald Trump and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau held bilateral talks at White House today. During a joint conference, both men pleaded to strengthen the trade partnership between the two countries, to impr...
This is AP news minute. 1. The U.S coast guide in Alaska planned to search through the night for a 98-foot fishing boat with 6 people aboard missing in the Bering sea. The coast guide said in a statement that an electronic locating device was recover...
This is AP news minute. 1. President Donald Trump met with Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe at the White House today. During a joint news conference, Trump said U.S is committed to the security of Japan under all of its controlled areas. The comme...
This is AP news minute. 1. The U.S senate has voted on party lines to approve Tom Price as the secretary of health and human service. Republicans see Price as the acknowledgeable leader who can take on Obama care. Democrats called him an ideal ideolo...
This is AP news minute. 1. President Donald Trump summoned bipartisan group of 10 senators to the White House Thursday, to urge them to confirm his supreme court nominee judge Neil Gorsuch. This comes amid controversy over Neil Gorsuch's comments tha...
This is AP news minute. 1. Despite the rebuke of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren for criticizing colleague and attorney general -designate, Jeff Sessions with the words of Coretta Scott king from three decades ago. Other democrats quoted King...
This is AP news minute. 1. The senate confirms Betsy DeVos as education secretary, with the tie-breaking note from vice president Mike Pence. It's the first time a vice president has had to break the tie for a cabinet nominee. The senate was split 50...
